I (a.k.a. Sundance ) was 21 and life was BEAUTIFUL!! ceremonial button's for breakfast, walking around with my guitar from camp to camp exploring, singing and meeting so many wonderful folks along with seeing long time friends again. The camping was great even though it rained the night before, I will always cherish these memories, This show changed my world forever! It was here on that fateful day of August,28 1982 when I first met The Great Intergalactic Cosmic Gypsy Rainbow Visionary Peace Circus and Trading Council. I had no choice but to join up with them and abscond the giant geodesic dome set up at the concert on loan from Oregon State University, so, with Condor at the wheel we landed at Peoples Park in Eugene where we set up the dome then we headed for cougar hot springs and many many more adventures......but that is another story. Great show!!! fare thee well my friends Aloha

Magical, two if my best friends that went to this show with me have passed on, my memories of this experience will never fade. I won't rate this show it was an experience that all who were there knew this was the the place to be it was truly a happening. The trip was on everyone the dust the dancing and naked were all around enjoying the moment. So glad I was there.

...cozmically wound up checking this show today,yay. yeah it was hot n sunny n dusty, i remember i had a fresh bottle, and the Day Job ,hah,thats about it.... Oh and .the Duprees was cool, ...Sadly, the most clear memory i have of this show,which was going in ,thats why i can recall this,...was some heads right by the entry zone had signs " Boycott this show,Dont support Jerrys Junk Habit !!!" ,...i was like "Huh ??" i guess i sorts kinda knew,i forget ,but didnt really think about it,or at that time ,the concern level was not as strong or well known....anyway,Thanx Jerry,U ROCK !!!!!

After being there it is hard for me to imagine anyone rating it less than 5 stars. Sunny day in Kesey's back yard, middle of the woods with the Prankster's and the Flying Karamazov Bros. The music was fantastic, the volume was cranked, and I am not sure I will ever recover. Thank God! :)

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This was my first show also.I remember Phil sound was so strong it was blurring my vision.It was vibrating the hanging tye dyes.Ive lived in the Phil zone eversince.And Jerrys envelope filter control could slide you through dimentions like silk.50 year anniversary!THEY'RE GETTIN THE BAND BACK TOGETHER!!!It should be interesting with all the analogs around.Any suggestions?LSZ AL-LAD N-BOM25 Cya there Croak aka Jmurphy

After driving all day to get to Veneta, and listening to the rain drumming on the roof of Dark Star that night, we were sure we would awaken to a quagmire, AND a morass, but the weather was beautiful. We washed down $2(3/$5.....we were thrifty shoppers) hits with water from an Army surplus water trailer, and waited as the temperature climbed, the sun rose in the sky, and our energy kicked into overdrive. The dust and the heat was totally worth it. Peter Rowan came out solo, Wavy Gravy was up from the Hog Farm, and the jug band Strangers With Candy(an offshoot of the Dynamic Logs) changed their name to Sometimes A Great Jugband for the occasion. Robert Cray was great, and the Flying Karamozovs were wonderful(as usual).
To Rhubarb, who blamed the cancellation of the 1992 Field Test on the church ladies, did you forget that Jerry went into kidney failure about 10 days before the show? That was the reason the band cancelled touring for about 6 weeks, and to Bilbo Baggins, who said he stole the show, I don't remember you at all, but I sure remember the St Pauli Girl lookalike that kept feeding me grapes all through the show to ward off sunburn, and who went from fully dressed to nothing but sky blue panties as the show went on. Now SHE was a show-stopper, and is she now, that beautiful girl who just felt I needed taking care of? Bless you!

I was 21 at this show, and it is far and away at the top of my list. I've only been to 35ish, shows, but having lived in SFO and Oregon, this one was special.

Just listen to Jerry's spot-on guitar leads, and Bobby's intense vocals. While watching this show, you could just tell from the first song, this was going to be 'great'. And it was. A warm day, perfectly tuned instruments, Mickey was on fire, Bobby and Jerry were in another fine-tuned dimension.

I remember it like it was yesterday, almost a 'mini-woodstock' but perfect weather, perfect songs, everything was 'in tune' on this day in '82 in Oregon.

My mind is a dripping mess of goo after hearing this one, great show.

Energetic Playin>Drums, as a user stated below the crystal must be kicking in full steam during Playin and you can hear it. Bobby is coming out of his pants singing the "Bob songs" of the 2nd set, also some interesting lyric changes made in Truckin that make for an interesting time.

Great show, check out the first "Field Trip" if you have not heard it yet.

This is one of my favorite bootlegs from waaaaay back...cassette no longer supported in my household. How do I download this audio file...please point me to the right link or instructions...need it spelled out...kind of dense on the computer...thanks!

It pissed rain the night before and into the morning. Rolling Thunder (The man, not the band) came out and did some crazy-ass injun dance and the rain went away. Peter Rowan came out and played a few bars. The boys took the stage for a while. After the last encore, the clouds gathered quickly and it pissed rain for two days. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT F**k with the Shoshonee. They will mess you up something fierce.

This was the very first "live" recording I had ever heard from this amazing band. I had this on a cassette tape but played the shit out of it til one day my tape player ate it up. That was a sad day because my friend who had recorded it for me went to prison and I didnt know anyone else who had a recording of it. So for years I searched and searched for this show and not finding it And then just recently someone told me about Archive and to see if it were on there and it was. And now I'm so hooked on this site!!!!

tie dyed silk parachutes suspended above, a stage tucked back against the treeline, and happy hippies field-tripping on a hot, sunny Oregon day -- It was my 23 birthday.

Far From Me comes and goes before you even know it. The boys must have been in the peak of the paper they supposedly took for the show by the time they hit Playin' the tempo is up and away after a long Country and Western first set for th emost part. If you listen to the 72 show, you can tell for sure when the paper hit them in Playin's as well.
But the thing I noticed the most was that other than 4.27.85, they never put together a Wheel>TO1>Truckin' combo.

Two weeks ago I spoke with an old friend that I hadn't seen since that August 28th show. We spoke for three hours and it was as if no time had passed between us at all!
Thanks to the entire GD family for creating environments that produced such sweet memories!
Much love to you all.

2nd sumission. Here I am -- givin Archive props -- only to have some kind of error reject my first review...

whatever --
listen to this show ---

HAPPY

There is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead Show.

Yo Earthlings,
Does anybody have pictures of the U.F.O. of the U. of O.? We put this tent together and stole the show, Ken Kesey came up to me to shake my hand and thank me for the way I (Bilbo Baggins with the denim Top Hat & Tails)stole the show. I told him, "I didn't mean to!" Contact bilbotophatbaggins this is a yahoo.com.

this is a fun feelin' show

fine versions of Althea, China Rider, West La, and Black peter which Jerry really stretches out and gets several peaks from...check it out

this show sounds very good with lots of bottom end

if you like 82 check out

05-22-82
07-28/29-82
12-30-82

...let the boys take you on a tour of a more slinky/seedy side of the LA scene. The instrumental dance between the band while they played this is amazingly jazzy bluesy cool. The show is unquestionably a frickin rock'n rollin' good time. The West LA is a highlight of a highlight.

Was indeed held in the fields (parking lots) of the Oregon Country Fairgrounds (www.oregoncountryfair.com). My first show, and quiet the introduction! Arriving the day before to camp at the fairgrounds, driving in from the Oregon Coast it rained, cooling the area for a following hot and beautiful Oregon summer day! My greatest impression was the hippie parents and their children running with rose garlands and streamers in their hair. And the sense of family (and history) with Kesey and the pranksters about. A perfect location for the opening Bertha, hot and sweltering, dancing, marveling at the wooded hill lines surrounding the site. Loved China Cat! A lot of the show resonated with that west americana (BRiver->Uncle, Chinacat->Rider). That day was a field trip, myself on 1400 mics before a girl dancing beside me gave me one more tab! The Other One and the bus came by.... That night I had the privilege of camping within the rambling figure-eight of the fairgrounds itself and spent most of the night in a huge sauna (75 people) at "the Ritz". The following morning I walked around a quiet and near vacant wooded fairground, marveling in desire to experience the fair itself. The following year I did indeed attend the fair, and have since. And in 1992 the Grateful Dead indeed was set to return. I actually was chosen as a craft vendor for the concert. There was nothing in OR that prevented the concert. Jerry's personal Doctor told Jerry to get off the road and take care of himself. The good Doctor pulled the plug for health reasons. I was told this by the Doctor himself years later at a Eugene show. There was a followup make up show out at "Conde's Redwood" and I clearly remember the T-Shirts showing a slovenly Jerry in bathrobe eating a hamburger and milkshake for breakfast. Jerry did come clean quiet a bit and gave us many more wonderful years! OR and Wash shows were not as common as elsewhere, I saw most OR shows from the Field Trip '82 to the Portland '95 shows. I give a five just based upon the sheer hippie significance, I would also suggest getting the '72 show too!

The day after my 25th birthday, oh so long ago, the Dead would usually come to Oregon around my birthday in those days, what a sweeeeet treat! Show memories: lots of dust kicked up by twirlers & spinners, excellent hash cookies sold on the grounds (THOSE WERE THE DAYS), very jivey Day Job followed by Man Smart, Woman Smarter -- what a freakin' blast to listen to this again after all these years -- Brent was so hot -- walkin' back to the truck to get something I spy two peoplle making love on the ground in front of God & everybody -- those days are gone forever but thanks to the incredible foresight of the recorders we can relive this stuff --thank you Live Music Archive!!!!!! Peace
PS Addendum: Ran in to an old friend who was with me at the show & he reminded me that the show was acyually cut a little short due to excessive dust being kicked up by all the dancers, Despited repeated pleas to cease, the dust continued to blow into the face of the Boys and thet had to shut down a little early.
Peace, Jeff

Such a funmny setlist for a ecadenial celebraiton with the new tunes fo fra from me and the duprees encore...but a great download, great quality

This was my second show, but really my first, where I stepped off the curb for so long....We snuck in and slept on the train tracks and sat on the hay bales with some crew guys getting high and all the people in the world came running from the east when they opened the gates. What a day! Two stages and so much dust from dancing and i was impressed trying to be cool in a sea of vuarnets trying to really figure out the adulation. Then all alone inside the colors and happysunshine and chaos Jerry did reach under the ground and pulled that searing Black Peter from where cold real sacred things live and delivered it whole into my mind where it sits like a hard gem still. And right then, that very then, I fell off the curb climbed aboard and rode, more or less, the only thing going in our culture 'till portland '95 when he waved goodbye. I'm glad to have found this, though I almost fear to listen....

I'm not sure, but the OCF usually takes place the weekend after the 4th of July, so this is probably at the Oregon Country FairGROUNDS... nonetheless, good stuff! My friend was there (i was 8), and cajoled me to get this... Good sound quality, though the levels seem to be a little low... This is Kesey Country, and thus Dead country...yum! Would be 5 stars w/ higher levels...

Hey buddy, good observation ! Your right about "Country" not county. I was there, and I agree about Black Peter. The same is true for much of the generic tunes !
But, the new debut's of West L.A. Fadeaway, and Day Job were certainly, at least for me, very cool. I know many folks got bored with Day Job by '85, since they drove it into the ground, thus probably causing them to elect not to studio record it.
However, I always thought it was a typically great example of how great Garcia was at writing tunes with a blues/jazz/folk "turnaround" in it. That takes some explaining for those of you who don't konw what a turnaround is, but perhaps later, (I personally have always called Jerry the "King of turnarounds"; not only in his original compositions, but in a very wide range of pieces, and improvisations of almost any variety. ie. he would ingeneiously throw in a turnaround where one wouldn't typically characterize the tune, or section as blues or folk etc).
Also the lyrics to West L.A. Fadeaway are different. I have some more comments regarding this but maybe later, since those are mostly experiencial personally.
But, most notably, and obviously totally unexpected, was the extremely welcome return of Duppree's Diamond Blues, and even better than the early rendtions of course given the modern equipment, ie. "envelope filter" etc. for an encore.

Wicked show...camping trip #2 ;)

One slight correction though...it is the Oregon Country Fair, not County (easy mistake).
This is the same location as the '72 Springfield Creamery benefit (then it was called the Rennaissance Fair).

www.oregoncountryfair.org

The band was going to make it a 30 year tradition in '92, but the local right-wing-mucky-mucks caused such a stink that the show was a no-go.
(THANKS ALOT VENETA/ELMIRA CHURCH-LADIES!!!)